Comment 19 for bug 771788

I am running Ubuntu Classic, not Unity, but I have the same situation with slightly different system information:

$ /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTS 450/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 4.1.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06

Not software rendered: yes
Not blacklisted: yes
GLX fbconfig: yes
GLX texture from pixmap: yes
GL npot or rect textures: yes
GL vertex program: yes
GL fragment program: yes
GL vertex buffer object: yes
GL framebuffer object: yes
GL version is 1.4+: yes

Unity supported: yes

$ grep drv\.so /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 15452.731] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so
[ 15452.738] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so
[ 15453.299] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[ 15453.299] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[ 15453.304] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[ 15453.319] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[ 15453.323] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[ 15453.325] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so

$ lshw
     *-pci:0
        *-pci:0
           *-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: GF106 [GeForce 450 GTS]
                vendor: nVidia Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                version: a1
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
                resources: irq:18 memory:fc000000-fcffffff memory:d8000000-dfffffff memory:d4000000-d5ffffff ioport:d800(size=128) memory:fbf80000-fbffffff

I don't have problems with crashes, but I appear to have no hardware acceleration whatsoever when running OpenGL. The weird thing is that applications report decent frame rates, but the numbers are obviously bogus based on what I see on the screen.

I did a clean install, not an upgrade. The card was working fine with the proprietary nVidia drivers on 10.04.